A closeup of frigid Titan reveals dark splotches that Cassini revealed are lakes of liquid hydrocarbons.

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As part of ts farewell tour, Cassini took this picture of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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Saturn's wide but thin rings seem almost solid enough to skate across in this unprocessed picture from Cassini.

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Saturn takes center stage in this Cassini image taken mere hours before the end of the mission.

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The rings of Saturn lay sprawled against the cosmos in one of the last images from Cassini.

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Enceladus appears as a thin crescent under the bright bulk of Saturn in this Cassini image released on September 14.

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Cassini gets one of the closest, most detailed views of Saturn's rings during the final phase of its mission.

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Cassini captured this picture of majestic Saturn and its famed rings as the NASA spacecraft hurtled toward its doom on September 14, 2017.

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Cassini's very last image shows the region on Saturn's night side where the probe entered the planet's atmosphere, sealing its fate. Here, the planet's swirling clouds glow with light reflected from its rings.

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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus sinks behind the planet in a farewell portrait from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which destroyed itself by diving into the ringed giant on September 15, 2017.